The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25
Nephi, the Key to All Of
Southern Utah. ~
VAST wOOL-GR0WING CENTRE,
A Sketch OF its Business aud WhC
Conducts It-A Thrifty Grow
ing City.

nercal city. II is the key to all Of
Southern Utah. The rich agricultural
valleys of San Pete and Sever on the
southeast, and the equally rich mineral
districts in the southwestern portion OF
the Territory are tributary to it.
Within a radius of few miles there are
inex au table supplies Of marble, salt,
gypszn, silver, lead and other mineral
deposits. 1t is also surrounded by the
finest agricultural and sheep grazing
country in the west. The chief indus
try Of this section, and one Of great i'm
portapoe, we feel, should justly be
treated fist, and that is
wooL-GRowING.
This industry has been steadily grow
ing for namo of years, and the peo-
pie Of the northern portion OF the Ter
ritory are just aWaking to the greatness
OF it. There are hundreds of men in the
southern countries who depend entirely
upon the wool product for their susten
ance. There are hundreds OF thousands
of sheep roaming the hills and finding
pasturage in the rich mountain valleys
OF that section, and year after year their
number increases and the wealth of that
section increases with them. No one
can really believe the Importance and
immensely of this industry until he
visits Nephi and sees for himself. Nephi
IS the market for all the wool of this
section and towards this port all the
wool gravitates. In May and June the
wool business is at it's height, and Nephi
Is alive with hustle and activity. The
wool clip last season was over 100000
pounds. Two million and half was
clipped in the spring. Nephi last sea-
sou exported 5000 900 pounds of wool
and received for 1T 100000. The wool
merchants are enabled to offer the
highest market price for the product
and the poor man thereby receives the
benefit. Juab County is q natural
winter range for sheep, and within the
immediate vicinity of Nephi there are
2O0 900 sheep wintered. Success on |
every hand is attending the sheep grow
ers of that section and an industry of
great comm erciaL interest is steadily in !
creasIug.
GRAIN,
Immense quantities OF wheat, oats, |
rye, barley and corn are shipped from
Nephi to points east and west. The
farmers in the agricultural counties IN |
that immediate section bring their pro- |
ducts 10 this point and readily ind a |
msrket. And to say that their pro-
ducts are first class would only De re- !
peating an old chestnut.
POTATOES.
An excellent quality of potatoes and |
T.. IN
vicinity and find aready market in Col |
Orado and Kansas.
STOCK GROWING.
Next to the wool-groWing industry |
ranks stock-growing This section is |
particularly adapted to It, and many |
investors have grown rich rapidly in !
this business. There are natural winter
ranges in that section, and stock |
growing can be conducted with great |
profit. Already there are immense |
herds pastured here and the industry |
els rapidly increasing. Farmers are
taking hold of these two industries
Esol-growing and stoek-raising-wit |
profit, and by combining them with |
farming they are enabled to become
prosperous. i
a few miles east of Nephi, rock and |
spring salt of excellent quality is OBJ |
tanned, and the supply is inexhsustible. |
From all parts of this western country |
orders come for car loads Of this salt, /
which is considered superior to any in |
the west. This alone is destined to |
become source Of revenue and profit.
MARBLE.
Not long since people were astonished
to learn that not far from Nephi--a few
miles to the West-there had been dis
covered first class quality of Carrara
marble The mines are now being
worked, but lack the necessary capital. |
With the expenditure Of few thousand |
dollars capital to develop these mines,
8 bonanza would open up to the invest
ers, and another of Utah's products put |
Oh the market.
FACTORIES.
Being in the midst of wool-groWing |
section, Nephi is the best point in the
Territory at which 10 establish wooden |
factories, ETC., and they would receive |
the hearty support of the people of that |
section and vicinity, and success is as
suTed beforehand.
TAEEERIEs.
On account of the immense quantities |
of hides sold here, tanneries could be
operated with profit We understand
there is one in operation already, and
turning out good quality of leather.
YLoURISG MILLS, BEEF PACKING HOUSES,
CHEESE FACTORIES, ETC,
would find most excellentl openings. |
Any of the above industries could De